this is d.w. news live from berlin and kim jong un to get down to business in singapore the north korean leader is holding talks with prime minister lee hsien long ahead of tuesday's summit with u.s. president donald trump in storage meaning has been described by trump as a one time shot at peace also coming up. the defining image of the g. seven summit german chancellor angela merkel chastising trump or is of this photograph of the u.s. president cool and collected a photo duel counters the acrimonious split as the leaders met in canada.

thanks for joining us i'm marrying a. north korean leader kim jong un has arrived in singapore for tuesday's highly anticipated summit with u.s. president donald trump he's been holding talks with singapore's prime minister lieschen long at his official residence trump is expected to arrive at the city state shortly tuesday summit will be the first time that a north korean leader has met with a sitting u.s. president it's expected they'll talk about denuclearization and possible efforts to formally end the korean war. well earlier heading he can have a german council on foreign relations joins me in the studio to talk about these developments he said even though both trump and kim are going to be in singapore today the meeting isn't likely to take place immediately. i think it has been

a kind of race to be to be there on the spot earlier and for trump it was an opportunity to slip the face of the other g seven members believing that summit earlier than than expected writes a tramp is due to arrive later today and he's described as upcoming summit with the north korean leader as a one time shot at peace but yet other times he's been more cautious saying that it's only kind of a preparatory get to know you type of meeting so what kind of a summit is it going to be it has to be clear that this meeting itself is one of the greatest concessions that the americans to make to the north koreans they. the king said if you can family has it's tried for generations really to be seen as. negotiation partner on my level with the americans and i wanted to talk by letter really most of the time so this is a historic development an opportunity of course to to use this concession to

pressure more form from kim that kim would give up the nuclear weapons which are in a way that life is insurance for him is unlikely though and so i see the trump is seeing this as a risk that if it goes wrong he wouldn't want to repeat it all right hand they could do stay with us and just from i will be talking to you again shortly well the singapore summit has overshadowed the end of the g seven meeting in canada there is then usually acrimonious and to the annual event which brings together seven leading industrial democracies after two days of tense talks all seven signed a final communique seemingly finding an agreement on the need for rules based trade the bend president trump withdrew his country's indorsement with a tweet is the first time a g seven gathering has ended without a joint statement. is the german chancellor lecturing the u.s.

president is the u.s. president being belligerent whichever way you look at this photo posted on instagram by angular makeovers office you can't ignore the tension that tension was evident before during and even after the g. seven summit ended in canada donald trump made sure of that he'd already angered his allies by slapping tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from canada the european union and mexico and he used the g seven meeting to demand better trade deals for the u.s. while warning against retaliation over they tell you to make it a mistake because you see we have a tremendous trade imbalance so when we try and bring our piece up a little bit so that it's not so bad and then they go up right the difference is they do so much more business with us than we do with them that we can't lose that

you understand we can't listen and with that trump left the show five hours early but even with his warning in mind justin trudeau still felt obliged to promise his own retaliatory tariffs. i highlighted directly to the president that canadians did not take it lightly. that the united states has moved forward with significant tariffs on are still in aluminum industry particularly did not take lightly the fact that it's based on a national security reason that its kind of insulting. those comments infuriated president trump he tweeted from on board air force one that he would no longer endorse the joint summit statement and threaten to impose even more tariffs he said pm justin trudeau acted so me can mild jewing on g seven meetings only to

give a news conference saying that u.s. tariffs what kind of insulting very dishonest and weak. the canadian prime his office has sought to play down the frac but with the threat of an international trade war a step closer it doesn't look like any of these leaders have much to smile about and henny baker from the german council on foreign relations of here with me to talk about this now so donald trump abruptly retracting his support for the joint statement at the end of the g. seven lashing out at the host country canada is this kind of disarray a sign that this very important annual gathering. is falling apart when it is historic to have so much such a level of conflict in that important meeting. i would say the g. seven is a very important institution it has forty years on its back so it is it is obvious

that these strongest countries with the strongest economies they can make a change in international relations and global governance and that we will keep on trying but this meeting will be an example of how to do it. now having i'd like to talk to you about this photo from the summit that's gone viral published by the german government showing the german chancellor on the america will sort of with their hands on the table leaning in sort of an imposing position towards donald trump. there's been a lot of chatter about this photo what do you think it tells us i think it's a clear sign of hole the arguments were carried on most of the other countries were critical of what. trump was doing especially the europeans because of the trade issue of us where possibly more cautious but sitting down. blocking the other way he is isolated and he knows that and i think it is

a weakness that he doesn't want to look so isolated so he did hate this photo well it should be mentioned that the u.s. published its own photo in fact from the very same moment we should say the very same scene but from a different perspective where the german chancellor is not visible at all and in the center is trump himself with a very sort of haughty kind of smirking look on his face is this a sign really of the different narratives that we're seeing about the same situation it's all communication and it must be clear trump sees himself not as the president to defend the g seven but to defend growth and jobs in america and this is the signal he wants to send not so much to the other g six but to his own electorate to the people in america but things are more complex and what he could have achieved in being co-operative or in the negotiating about the tariffs i mean

that would have been much better for america i think. should forget that the europeans and the americans have been negotiating about abolishing all tariffs in the transatlantic trade and investment partnership that he has the trump dropped so he could have could have had it better. or could have initiated negotiations without much bombast and it wouldn't have looked so ugly well despite what was visibly a tense summit trump himself insisting that there wasn't a kind of acrimonious atmosphere and after all he did agree to the joint statement initially what was that statement so the statement said some make sure i'm so important growth is how important this is to create jobs and help those who are most vulnerable. a few words about global governance but when it came to global climate and the my mental protection there were paragraphs saying america wants that continue to to export fossil fuel and the europeans and the of us want that so

the whole document gave a good picture. about the discord at the meeting but it it also made clear that most of the g seven actually have the same agenda to follow all right having to take up from the german council on foreign relations many thanks indeed figuring with a. now russian president vladimir putin says he's ready to hold a summit with u.s. president donald trump if washington is willing who made the statement at a meeting of the shanghai cooperation organization in qingdao china's president xi jinping hosted world leaders including iranian president hassan rouhani and indian prime minister narendra modi the iranian leaders said he appreciates efforts by beijing and moscow to maintain the nuclear deal that the united states pulled out of last month. a young iraqi asylum seeker accused of raping and murdering a fourteen year old german jewish girl known as susana is now in custody in germany

german interior minister who as they were for confirmed that the man identified as ali b. had been extradited from iraqi kurdistan where he had fled authorities there say the twenty year old admitted to killing the girl who went missing last month. from abele to frankfurt airport and onto v's barden via helicopter the young iraqi suspect was taken into custody amid heavy police presence authorities here seeking to make amends after accusations that their early investigations were floored. this shows that the german judiciary has this case under control everyone can see what's going on and i think that helps people sense that justice is being done the station tyria minister has urged that in future airports have specialized staff to check travel documents written in arabic from the g. seven summit in canada chancellor angela merkel extended her sympathy to the

victim's family. the inconceivable suffering that this family is going through also affects me deeply and i can only say how good it is that the alleged perpetrator has been arrested. the cooperation between german and kurdish security officials worked well. here. the police who arrested the young man say he admitted to the crime. you know when i learned that u.v.-a there was an altercation between them and the girl threatened to call the police and report him. a conflict that escalated and that's what led to the young man killing the girl. i know i'm sure we have in mind swear the victim lived commemorations became protests leftist groups demonstrated against sen a phobia while just meters away the far right a.f.d.

protested against immigration. and the truth is to put it of course this murder is political because it involves a request for asylum which the relevant authorities aren't prepared to discuss it's time they did infinitives us by the eighty's reaction i'm a father of four and one i think that this girl hasn't even been buried yet and the family is in profound grief and then he stands up promoting his right wing party politics that's outrageous for talisa teased the demonstrations and debate over this case a likely to continue. or as in sports now and world cup soccer news egyptian star mohamed thrilled fans who came out to watch the team's final home training session just by showing up and still not certain though whether he'll be ready to play in egypt opening match on friday after suffering a brutal shoulder injury last month knowledge the crowd during

a training session but did not actually take part in this will be egypt's first world cup in twenty eight years and fans are desperate for the english premier league player of the year to have a key role. the men's final of the french open tennis tournament is now just hours away with austrian dominic team facing what could be the biggest challenge in sport beating rafael nadal on clay in paris the dollar's going after his a leavened french open title but he's wary team is the only player to have beaten him on clay in the past two years. he was one of those players that. have the chance to win every tournament that he was playing. and maybe even more here in roland hours because he is a strong physical he has the power. all saturday's win by simona halep on the women's side was the first for the romanian

three tries in the french open final halep came from a set down to defeat american sloane stephens and you're watching d.w. news we'll have more news at the top of the hour in the meantime you can always get the latest news and information on our web site that's at w dot com american every scene from all of us here in berlin thanks for watching. where i come from we have to fight for a free press i was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and if you newspapers what official information as a journalist i have work off the streets of many characters and their problems are always the same forward to social inequality to a lack of the freedom of the press. coverage we can afford to stay silent when it comes.